Timothy John Parker

Timothy John Parker

Timothy John Parker is a widely-published technical author, editor, trainer and consultant. He is claimed to be the most widely-published author on UNIX and Linux subjects.Fact|date=July 2008

Biography

Timothy Parker was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1958 but has lived in Canada for several decades. He was educated in England and Canada, studying for his Bachelor degrees at the University of Toronto and the University of Ottawa. He did post-graduate studies at the University of Ottawa.

He started his writing career in 1981 publishing an article on S-BASIC, a structured basic compiler for the Kaypro computer. Shortly thereafter he began writing about the Commodore VIC-20 computer, writing several articles for "Compute!" magazine and "Commander" magazine, for which he also wrote a regular column entitled "Ravings of a Madman".

Tim Parker has written for over two dozen different magazine titles focused on the computer industry. Frequent contributions were made to "Windows NT Systems Magazine", "Windows NT Expert", "Advanced Systems Magazine" and many others. He wrote monthly columns for Canadian "Computer Resller", "IT Datasystems" and several other magazines. Tim Parker was the Technical Editor for "SCO World Magazine" from its inception to its closure. Working with Linux' growing popularity, Tim also contributed heavily to "Maximum Linux" magazine and "Linux Journal", and was the Technical Editor for "Linux Server Computing" magazine during its publication history. An avid photographer, Tim also contributed to several photographic magazines including "Digital Foto". To date, Tim has published approximately 3,500 articles, reviews, and columns.

Timothy Parker has written many commercially published books. His first was "UNIX User's Handbook" published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley. A set of Linux books was published by Sams Publishing, including "Linux Unleashed", "Slackware Linux Unleashed", "Redhat Linux Unleashed" and "Linux System Administrator's Survival Guide". All titles went through several editions. Sams also published Tim's "TCP/IP In 14 Days" and "TCP/IP Unleashed". Prentice-Hall published Tim's "Linux To Go" and "Windows 98 To Go". Tim's books have been translated into several languages.

Tim has worked for the last two decades in the telecom and software development fields, lately as Vice President of Development and Engineering.


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